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EQUUS TREMULI

an equestrian statue of Q. Marcius Tremulus, consul in
306 B.C., erected in front of the temple of Castor and Pollux to commemorate his victory over the Hernici (Liv. ix. 43. 22). It was still
standing in Cicero's day (Phil. vi. 13), but had disappeared before the time
of Pliny (NH xxxiv. 23). A concrete base in front of the temple of
Divus Iulius has been believed to be that of this statue (NS 1904, 106;
CR 1904, 330; BC 1904, 178-179 ; Atti 583, 584), but it certainly belongs
to the Augustan period (Mitt. 1905, 73, 74; P1. 260, 261; HC 155).
To suppose either that so comparatively unimportant a monument
would have been restored and placed in front of the new temple, or that,
having been restored, it would so soon have disappeared, is almost
impossible; and it is far more natural to attribute it to a statue of Caesar
himself. See STATUA (LORICATA) DIVI IULII.